Improvement in peach-stoners



UNITEnN STATES PATENT OFFICE.

0WARREN D. HATCH, OF ANTRIM, NEW HAMPSHIRE, ASSIGNOR TO D. H.

. GOODELL, OF SAME PLAGE.

IMPROVEMENT 1N PEAcH-sToNsns.

Speciiication forming part of Letters Patent No. 133,855, dated December 10,1872.

Tol all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WARREN D. HATCH, of Antrim, in the county of Hillsborough and State `of New Hampshire, have invented a Peach-Stoner; and I do hereby declare that the following, taken in connection with the drawing which accompanies and forms part of this specificatiomis a description of my invention sufficient to enable those skilled in the art to practice it.

rlhe inventionrelates to the construction of a machine by which a peach may be freed `from its stone or pit by pushing the stone through one end of the fruit, the pushing instrument entering the opposite end, the peach beingheld by suitable means while the stoneremoving device enters the peach and thrusts out the stone. My invention consists, primarily, in a machine by which a peach is thus stoned. In connection with the provision for removing the stone, there may also be a provision for splitting, dividing, or halving the peach, and the drawing represents a machine having both provisions. v

, Figure 1 shows a side and sectional view of the machine. Fig. 2 is a front view oi it.

a denotes a bed-plate, which may be provided with anvarm, b, and a clamp-screw, c, for attaching the machine to'atable. From l the bed-plate a rises an upright or post, d, having an arm, c, in vwhich is a bearing for a sliderod or plunger, f, having at its foot a fork or pusher, g. r1`he bed-plate also has extending up from it springs or prongs h, upon the tops of which the peach to be stoned is placed, preferably with the stem-end of the peach toward the prongs.

The prongs or springs may be made spoonshaped, as seen in the drawing, or oi' any other suitable form.

The peach being laid or held upon the springs or prongs with the stem-end down and the blossom-end toward the plunger, the

plunger is forced down, (either by direct application of the hand to the plunger or by a 4lever,) bringing the pin or pusher g against the peach, and by continued pressure the pin enters the peach, the prongs at its end straddle the edge of the stone, and the stone is pushed through the stem-end, falling down through a hole, t', in the bed-plate a into any convenient receptacle placed beneath.

On each open side oi' the springs h a stationary knife, 7c, may be placed, and the plunger being also provided with two wing knives, l l,

these'knives will cut into the opposite ends of the peach and through it, splitting it into two halves, which fall downl outsideot1 the springs h.

By a machine thus constructed peaches may be very rapidly stoned, or stoned and halved.

I claiml. A peach-stoner, having, in combination with a device or devices for impaling the peach, a plunger having a fork, pin, or pusher for entering `one end ofthe peach and driving the stone through its opposite end.

2. In combination with the springs and plunger, the stationary and movable cutters for splitting the peach, substantially as shown and described.

Executed this 27th day of September, A. D. 1872.

WARREN D. HATCH.

Witnesses:

M. A. Goonnrcn E. F. Goonnron. 

